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 Topic: Bye bye allotment |
Kariana
Replies: 33
Views: 29808
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 Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Mon Aug 25, 14 10:11 am Subject: Bye bye allotment |
| Keyhole gardening is quite a good way to get a lot from a small space, including a place to compost. |
| Topic: Fly Strike |
Kariana
Replies: 10
Views: 14143
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Tue Jul 29, 14 7:40 am Subject: Fly Strike |
| Ignorant question - is this why they used to dip sheep? Is it no longer a legal requirement? Does anyone still do it? I haven't heard of sheep being dipped since I was very young. |
| Topic: Fried crispy tomato seedlings? |
Kariana
Replies: 12
Views: 10021
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Jul 29, 14 7:34 am Subject: Fried crispy tomato seedlings? |
| What sort of tomato are they? My one plant looks very tame compared to that! |
| Topic: Is there such a thing as too much grafting? |
Kariana
Replies: 21
Views: 19324
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Jul 22, 14 9:29 pm Subject: Is there such a thing as too much grafting? |
| I also want one! (despite the fact that I find grafting a slightly freaky process, one that I would never do! I find grafted trees difficult to deal with and refuse to touch the graft - yes I am a bit ... |
| Topic: First Sourdough Bread |
Kariana
Replies: 7
Views: 7262
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Tue Jul 22, 14 7:58 am Subject: First Sourdough Bread |
| The flattening can also be caused by not shaping the dough tightly enough. It's not enough to just roughly shape it you have to really work to make the surface tight as you pull the dough under to mak ... |
| Topic: Unset rhubarb jam |
Kariana
Replies: 4
Views: 3476
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Tue Jul 22, 14 7:53 am Subject: Unset rhubarb jam |
| I never rely on the thermometer for jam, mainly because I can never actually get the temperature to 'setting point'. The saucer test I've found is the most accurate, it's never let me down yet. |
| Topic: Blackcurrants |
Kariana
Replies: 12
Views: 10034
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Jul 17, 14 8:50 am Subject: Blackcurrants |
| If they're ready they should easy to pull off the plant without bringing any stalk with it. You can ignore the tails. When I was younger I always wondered what they were doing with the currants in my ... |
| Topic: Summer Ball Courgette |
Kariana
Replies: 6
Views: 7297
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri Jul 04, 14 6:37 pm Subject: Summer Ball Courgette |
| I had assumed that if fruits were appearing at all that meant they were pollinating. Is that not the case? Do I just need to dab in each flower with a paintbrush to pollinate? |
| Topic: Perfect pork Crackling? |
Kariana
Replies: 1
Views: 3168
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Fri Jul 04, 14 8:45 am Subject: Perfect pork Crackling? |
| Sounds delicious! I've never liked pork crackling until a couple of weekends ago when there was a hog roast at a nearby pick your own farm. I had a roast pork sandwich that came with the biggest most ... |
| Topic: Summer Ball Courgette |
Kariana
Replies: 6
Views: 7297
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri Jul 04, 14 8:37 am Subject: Summer Ball Courgette |
| No they should be at least tennis ball size. I did cut one off yesterday just to see if they were ok to eat at golf ball size but they definitely werent ripe. Also they are a type that are supposedly ... |
| Topic: Summer Ball Courgette |
Kariana
Replies: 6
Views: 7297
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri Jul 04, 14 7:45 am Subject: Summer Ball Courgette |
| Ive never grown courgettes before but this year I'm growing a Summer Ball courgette in a pot. The leaves grew well and it's put out some flowers, however when the fruit grow they get to the size of a ... |
| Topic: Peas |
Kariana
Replies: 2
Views: 4654
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri Jun 13, 14 9:22 pm Subject: Peas |
| This may seem like daft question but it's the first time I've grown peas myself. They are about 8 inches high growing up sticks with wire making horizontal supports as well. Firstly they seem to be ex ... |
| Topic: Climbing Beans |
Kariana
Replies: 17
Views: 14221
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed Jun 04, 14 5:41 am Subject: Climbing Beans |
| If your soil is fairly reasonable I'd say probably the cold. My parents have planted beans. Last year they were amazing, this year definitely less so, looking less than happy. They haven't been fed ei ... |
| Topic: Too thick jam rescue |
Kariana
Replies: 24
Views: 42673
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Sat May 31, 14 11:23 pm Subject: Too thick jam rescue |
Revisited! Jam experts! If I have 600g prepared strawbs and 300g previously frozen redcurrants, how much sugar will I need for jam? I don't have any lemons and I DO have too many redcurrants 
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| Topic: Left overs |
Kariana
Replies: 7
Views: 11487
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Sat May 31, 14 11:16 pm Subject: Left overs |
ganache is ace in macarons and i see no reason not to include some with butter icing in the middle of two layers of ganache
my feeling about cup cakes is why?imho they are too small to cook or keep ... |
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